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August 20, 2009
Rhiannon Ally leaving KCTV 5
Kansas City -- message board -- Thanks to several tipsters and our TV message board we have learned that Rhiannon Ally will be leaving KCTV shortly to work for Better TV which is also owned by the same company as KCTV 5. (Meredith Corporation)
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August 19, 2009
TV News Giant Don Hewitt Dies At 86
National News -- cbsnews.com -- Don Hewitt, recognized as a father of modern television news and the creator of the medium's most successful broadcast, 60 Minutes, died of pancreatic cancer Wednesday. He was 86 and had homes in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, New York, where was with family at the time of death.
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August 19, 2009
KCTV 5 Kirk Black named VP/General Manager of WGCL-TV CBS Atlanta
Kansas City -- press release -- We received emails and heard a lot of rumblings about this a few weeks ago. Now it's official.
Today we are announcing that Kirk Black has been named VP/General Manager of WGCL-TV, our CBS affiliate in Atlanta, effective August 24, 2009. He is replacing Andy Alford, who has resigned. I want to personally thank Andy for his contributions during his time with Meredith.
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July 31, 2009
Weekend anchor Paul Herdtner is leaving WDAF-TV
Kansas City -- message board -- Weekend anchor Paul Herdtner is leaving local fox station WDAF-TV to become the public relations director for the Mutual Fund Store in Overland Park. Herdtner originally arrived as a morning show anchor.
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July 28, 2009
KCTV 5 & Sports Radio 810 Teaming Up
Kansas City -- message board -- Our Kansas City Radio board is reporting a big announcement will be coming from KCTV 5 about a partnership with 810 sports radio. Details coming soon!
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July 14, 2009
John Cook Leaving Entercom/KC
Kansas City -- allaccess.com -- After only a short period of time as OM/PD at ENTERCOM/KANSAS CITY Hot AC KKSN (99-7 KISS-FM) and Country WDAF (106.5 THE WOLF), JOHN COOK has resigned his post and is returning to PHILADELPHIA for personal reasons.
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July 1, 2009
Cable News Ratings: Fox News Continues Record Growth
National News -- Broadcasting & Cable -- MSNBC tops CNN in demo and viewers, HLN has best year in network history Fox News Channel finished the second quarter ratings period as the No. 3 ranked basic cable network in primetime behind USA and TNT.
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June 23, 2009
TV host Ed McMahon is dead at age 86
National News -- AP -- Ed McMahon, the loyal “Tonight Show” sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and a resounding “H-e-e-e-e-e-ere’s Johnny!” for 30 years, died early Tuesday. He was 86.
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June 3, 2009
Radio & Records Closes Doors
National News -- rronline.com -- The current state of affairs has left The Nielsen Company with no other alternative but to immediately cease all services, products and events related to Radio & Records. The magazine's final edition is the June 5 issue. Electronic products end today, the Web site will be taken offline soon.
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May 30, 2009
Jay Gets a Bump, Destroys Dave One Last Time
National News -- tvweek.com -- Friday night's final edition of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" averaged an 8.8 rating in Nielsen's overnight metered market averages, crushing a repeat of CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" (1.4/4) and giving "Tonight" its best Friday overnights ever during the Leno era.
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May 29, 2009
Layoffs Hit ESPN
National News -- ESPN has laid off about 100 employees at its BRISTOL, CT headquarters, part of previously announced cuts that followed a review of the network's operations.
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May 29, 2009
KCJK Interviews Spelling Bee Champ
Kansas City -- allaccess.com -- CUMULUS Adult Hits KCJK (105.1 JACK FM)/KANSAS CITY's morning show with BRYAN TRUTA and NYCKI PACE interviewed 13-year-old SCRIPPS SPELLING BEE champion KAVYA SHIVASHAKNAR.
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May 29, 2009
Grayson Gets Hitched
Saint Louis -- allaccess.com -- Congratulations to CBS RADIO Talk KMOX-A/ST. LOUIS and syndicated overnight host JON GRAYSON on his wedding on(5/29).
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May 26, 2009
Peggy Phillip named KSHB’s new News Director
Kansas City -- If are you are member of our TWITTER group (www.twitter.com/gwcr), you heard the news first.
Peggy Phillip will take over as News Director for NBC station KSHB effective June 8th. Peggy comes from KSHB’s sister station WMAR-TV (ABC) in Baltimore where she has been News Director for the past year.
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August 4, 2005
Radio deejays fired at KATZ
Saint Louis -- Post-Dispatch -- Two deejays have been fired from St. Louis’ KATZ radio for discussing ways to fight police officers just days after the murder of a Kirkwood police officer, station executives announced today.
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August 4, 2005
KMOX has lost Cards
Saint Louis -- Post-Dispatch -- The Cardinals' 52-year run with KMOX as the team's flagship radio station will
end after this season, with the broadcasts moving to KTRS, a KTRS board member
said Wednesday night.
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July 7, 2005
One Final Offer
Saint Louis -- allaccess -- INFINITY's Talk KMOX-A/ST. LOUIS makes another final, this-time-we-mean-it offer to keep CARDINALS baseball broadcasts on the station, reports the ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH.
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July 4, 2005
KMBC-TV Breaks Ground On New Station
Kansas City -- kmbc -- The new building will house KMBC-TV and its sister station, KCWE-TV. The site is located in eastern Kansas City in the Winchester Business Center near Interstate 435 and 63rd Street.
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July 2, 2005
Classic Country In STL
Saint Louis -- allaccess -- BONNEVILLE flips Standards WRTH-A to Classic Country. The station is now known as WIL-A and uses the moniker COUNTRY LEGENDS 1430. Check out their new site and listen to the station at www.legends1430.com.
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July 2, 2005
Moving Crosstown
Kansas City -- Former CUMULUS Top 40 KCHZ PD/morning man "JUST PLAIN" DAVE JOHNSON is now doing weekends at crosstown INFINITY Top 40 KMXV for PD CHRIS TAYLOR.
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May 4, 2005
Local KSHB Reporter Makes Network
Kansas City -- nbc -- Ron Mott has been named NBC News Correspondent effective May 9, 2005. Mott will contribute to "Today," "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," and MSNBC programs. The announcement was made today by NBC News President Neal Shapiro.
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April 21, 2005
SUSQUEHANNA For Sale
Kansas City -- board/allaccess -- Rumors become reality! SUSQUEHANNA held a company wide conference call to inform everyone that the company is for sale.
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April 19, 2005
Mobile Phone Broadcasts
Areas Beyond -- Hollywood Reporter -- Nokia's Visual Radio, which merges traditional FM radio with mobile phone interactivity, is set to go live in the United States, under a deal with Infinity Broadcasting disclosed Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.
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April 15, 2005
Nights Open at KMXV Mix 93.3
Kansas City -- allaccess -- CLEAR CHANNEL Top 40 KDWB/MINNEAPOLIS PD ROB MORRIS has inked INFINITY Top 40 KMXV (MIX 93.3)/KANSAS CITY MD/night crazy man LUCAS to MD/noon-2p duties, effective MAY 1st.
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April 11, 2005
106.5 The Arch is here!
Saint Louis -- allaccess -- ST. LOUIS is the latest market to get JACKed, or at least a version of the eclectic Variety Hits format.
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March 21, 2005
Changes Made At KCHZ Z95.7
Kansas City -- allaccess -- CUMULUS Top 40 KCHZ (Z95.7) OM/PD MAURICE DEVOE is making changes to the station’s on-air line up, which include placing himself in middays.
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March 2, 2005
Jason Whitlock quits 61 Sports
Kansas City -- kcstar -- In a stunning twist in Kansas City sports talk radio, Star columnist and 61 Sports personality Jason Whitlock quit his afternoon talk show Tuesday while on the air.
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February 22, 2005
Air Changes at KZCH
Areas Beyond -- allaccess -- Changes at CLEAR CHANNEL Top 40 KZCH (CHANNEL 963)/WICHITA as overnight guy BIG HEAD TED moves up to producer of the MAT MITCHELL IN THE MORNING SHOW. With that change comes the addition of SPOON, the newest member of the Channel 963 airstaff who moves into overnights from midnight to 3a.
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February 21, 2005
Classic Country in Topeka
Areas Beyond -- allaccess -- JMJ BROADCASTING KTPK (K-COUNTRY 106.9)/TOPEKA, KS augmented their format by switching to a Classic Country. PD/morning man CHRIS FISHER said the entire staff will remain intact and the new positioner will be "COUNTRY LEGENDS 106.9".
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February 14, 2005
Boomer out at KSLZ
Saint Louis -- allaccess -- CLEAR CHANNEL and Top 40 KSLZ PD/afternooner BOOMER have parted company, effective today.
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January 18, 2005
Maurice DeVoe Named KCHZ OM/PD
Kansas City -- R&R -- DeVoe, a 19-year broadcast veteran, replaces "Just Plain" Dave Johnson, who relinquished programming duties to concentrate on his morning show in November 2004.
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January 13, 2005
KSLZ Night Jock Out
Saint Louis -- allaccess -- CLEAR CHANNEL Top 40 KSLZ (Z107.7) night jock JET BLACK has stepped aside, and is now looking for his next opportunity.
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January 10, 2005
Morning Show Changes
Kansas City -- allaccess -- INFINITY AC KSRC (STAR 102) and married morning duo MONK & KELLY have parted ways, as the station is evidently taking a "more music" approach during wake-ups.
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December 22, 2004
FCC got a piece of the Rock
Kansas City -- Washington AP -- Federal regulators on Wednesday proposed a
$220,000 indecency fine against the owner of two Kansas radio
stations for broadcasting a "Naked Twister" game with local
strippers and graphic interviews with porn stars.
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December 7, 2004
A New #1 At 10pm
Kansas City -- kcstar -- In the first five minutes of this story, you'll learn the shocking details behind the TV station that toppled market leader KMBC!
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November 20, 2004
CBS affiliate taking over WB station
Kansas City -- kcstar -- Two more television stations in Kansas City merged operations Friday, as the owner of CBS affiliate KCTV bought a controlling stake in WB affiliate KSMO-TV.
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November 17, 2004
Jack-FM lands at 105.1
Kansas City -- kcstar -- Kansas City's newest radio format, “Jack FM,” likes to compare itself to some people's iPods: hundreds of songs from different eras and genres.
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November 12, 2004
Changes at Cumulus station KCHZ Z95.7
Kansas City -- allaccess -- PD/morning man DAVE JOHNSON is relinquishing the programming duties to focus 100% of his energy on the morning show. He'll remain PD until a replacement is hired.
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November 12, 2004
Meredith Broadcasting, KCTV 5 Expand Presence in KC
Kansas City -- Press Release -- Meredith Corporation announced today that it has agreed to purchase the non-license assets of KSMO-TV, the WB affiliate in Kansas City, from the Sinclair Broadcast Group (Nasdaq: SBGI) for $26.8 million. Meredith expects the transaction to be earnings neutral in the first year and accretive thereafter.
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October 27, 2004
Changes at KMXV Mix 93
Kansas City -- allaccess -- Former WTMX/CHICAGO afternooner DAVE FOGEL is now being heard on middays at INFINITY Top 40 KMXV (MIX 93-3).
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October 15, 2004
Herb McCord's JMJ Broadcasting Gets
Kansas FM
Areas Beyond -- rronline -- The Granum Communications President grabs a second station for his JMJ Broadcasting Co. by acquiring 100kw Country KTPK-FM/Topeka, KS from Berl Brechner's Kansas Capital Broadcasting for $5.7 million.
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October 15, 2004
ABC World News Tonight Coming to Missouri
Kansas City -- With Missouri being one of the key states for the 2004 election ABC and KMBC 9 has announced that ABC's "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings" will report from Kansas City on Monday, Oct. 18. at 5:30pm CST.
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October 12, 2004
dMarc Broadcasting Announces Multi-Million Dollar Progressive Radio Data Services Initiative
Kansas City -- press release -- dMarc Broadcasting Announces Multi-Million Dollar Progressive Radio Data Services Initiative, With the Objective to Upgrade its 4,600 Station Clients to Support Analog and Digital Data Services. FYI: Infinity Broadcating of KC, Cumulus Broadcasting of KC, Bott Radio, KCWJ, and KLJC are all existing customers of dMarc Broadcasting (Maestro and SS32 Automation Systems) and eligible for the free service.
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October 12, 2004
Scripps to acquire GAC network Agreement reached with Jones Media Networks, Ltd.
Kansas City -- press release -- The E. W. Scripps Company, which locally own KSHB 41/KMCI 38 Kansas City, and parent of Scripps Networks and its growing portfolio of national lifestyle television networks, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the Great American Country (GAC) network from Jones Media Networks, Ltd., for $140 million in cash. GAC, a 24-hour country music video network launched in 1996, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jones Media, a privately owned company based in Denver.
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October 6, 2004
E105.1 flips?
Kansas City -- allaccess/tip -- SUSQUEHANNA Hot AC KFME (E105.1) will flip to JACK-FM tomorrow (10/7) around noon local time. Check back for more detailed information tomorrow and read what people are saying on the Kansas City message board.
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October 1, 2004
Bush-Kerry Debate Draws 62.5 Million Viewers
Areas Beyond -- Reuters -- At least 62.5 million Americans tuned in to President Bush's debate with challenger John Kerry on Thursday, far surpassing the number who watched Bush's debates four years ago with Al Gore.
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September 28, 2004
JOHN CARNEY has been taken off the air
Saint Louis -- allaccess -- NFINITY Talk KMOX-AM evening host JOHN CARNEY has been taken off the air indefinitely after being accused of driving under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of an accident, according to the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH.
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September 27, 2004
JAY LENO TO TURN OVER 'THE TONIGHT SHOW' TO CONAN O'BRIEN IN 2009
Areas Beyond -- NBC -- In 2009, after what will then be a 17-year run as "America's Late Night Leader," Jay Leno has announced that he will turn over "The Tonight Show" to Conan O'Brien. Leno will officially make the announcement during this evening's "Tonight Show" -- a show that also celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the late night institution.
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September 27, 2004
2004 CMA Broadcast Awards Announced
Areas Beyond -- allaccess -- Country star DIERKS BENTLEY had the honor of contacting several radio stations and personalities this morning (9/27) to let them know they had won a 2004 CMA Broadcast Award. The winners had no prior notice about the win, just an on-air call from the CMA nominated BENTLEY himself.
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September 23, 2004
UNION BROADCASTING gets nailed with a $16,000 fine
Kansas City -- allaccess -- UNION BROADCASTING gets nailed with a $16,000 finefor public file and power-down violations at Talk KCTE-A and Sports WHB-A/Kansas City. The violations involve KCTE, a daytimer, running a carrier at night.
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September 23, 2004
Mat Mitchell added to the KZCH/Wichita lineup
Areas Beyond -- allaccess -- Clear Channel Top 40 KZCH (CHANNEL 96-3)/WICHITA names former ENTERCOM Top 40 WXSS (103.7 KISS-FM)/MILWAUKEE afternoon talent MAT MITCHELL APD/morning guy, effective … sometime in the near future
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September 22, 2004
CBS owned and operated TV Stations fined $550,000
Areas Beyond -- allaccess -- The FCC finally gets around to proposing that $550,000 fine on the CBS owned and operated television stations for the JANET JACKSON SUPER BOWL halftime incident, issuing a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture that the brief exposure of JACKSON's breast was "in apparent violation of the broadcast indecency standard." The fine is against VIACOM's 20 CBS-affiliated licenses.
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July 7, 2004
Another leaving WDAF-FM
Kansas City -- allaccess -- ENTERCOM Country WDAF PD WES McSHAY has confirmed that broadcast veteran and COUNTRY DJ HALL OF FAMER TED CRAMER has resigned from his OM/midday position.
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June 25, 2004
KC Radio Legend Announces Retirement
Kansas City -- 710kcmo.com -- If you missed the Mike Murphy Show on Friday, you missed radio history. Legendary Kansas City Radio Host Mike Murphy announced that he will retire from broadcasting at the end of the year.
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June 25, 2004
Randy Raley parts ways with KCFX
Kansas City -- As reported on our Kansas City message board around 10am this morning, SUSQUEHANNA RADIO Classic Rocker KCFX and morning host RANDY RALEY have parted ways.
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June 24, 2004
KCTV 5 New Weekend Meteorologist
Kansas City -- KCTV 5 has hired former KMBC and KSHB Meteorologist Ted Textor for weekend weather. Textor has almost two decades of experience, including a stint with CNN.
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June 11, 2004
WDAF-FM names BRAD KING their new night guy
Kansas City -- allaccess -- Country WDAF-FM PD WES MCSHAY has announced that he has hired BRAD KING to take on the 7p-mid shift. KING comes from Smooth Jazz WWLV/South Bend, IL. His first day on the job will be MONDAY, JUNE 21st.
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June 11, 2004
Doug Miller Leaving Mix 93.3
Kansas City -- allaccess -- After a six year run, INFINITY Top 40 KMXV (MIX93.3) Production/Imaging Director DOUG MILLER has been tapped for the Commercial Production Director position at JEFFERSON-PILOT Top 40 WSTR (STAR 94)/ATLANTA. MILLER begins his new duties JULY 12th.
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June 10, 2004
Laura Thornquist out at KCTV 5
Saint Louis -- newsblues -- Laura Thornquist, who was recently hired as the weekend morning anchor at Kansas City's Meredith-owned KCTV-5-CBS from Denver's KWGN-2-WB, has been released from her contract because she disobeyed an order from News Director Regent Ducas.
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May 12, 2004
Lazlo is uppped to PD
Kansas City -- ENTERCOM Alternative KRBZ (96.5 THE BUZZ)APD/afternooner LAZLO is upped to PD. GREG BERGEN continues as OM of KRBZ and sister Classic Rock KYYS (99.7 KY).
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May 12, 2004
OM/PD named at Infinity Broadcasting
Kansas City -- allaccess -- INFINITY has made it official and named Hot AC WMC (FM 100)/MEMPHIS PD CHRIS TAYLOR the OM/PD at sister Top 40 KMXV (MIX 93.3) and AC KSRC (STAR 102), effective JUNE 1st.
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May 12, 2004
Rick Miller takes over afternoons at WDAF-FM
Kansas City -- More changes continue for Entercom Country station WDAF 106.5 FM. Rick Miller takes over afternoons at WDAF. He comes from Mobile, Alabama and replaces David Bryan. Nighttimer Bruce Efron is also out
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April 13, 2004
KCTV 5 Anchor Russel Kinsaul OUT?
Kansas City -- Inside sources at KCTV 5 (CBS) say the contract for evening anchor Russel Kinsaul will not be renewed. You may remember last July his co-anchor Anne Peterson's contract was not renewed after 24 years at KCTV 5.
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April 9, 2004
Smash Joins Emmis Talker KFTK 97.1 FM
Saint Louis -- allaccess -- Market veteran ASHER BENRUBI, much better known as SMASH, joins JAMIE ALLMAN in mornings at EMMIS FM talker KFTK (97.1 FM TALK), effective APRIL 19. SMASH, most recently at crosstown INFINITY Oldies KLOU, started in the market as morning man for KFTK's sister Rock KSHE.
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April 9, 2004
More Info On Jeremy and Taunia.
Kansas City -- thepitch -- Last week, sizzling TV couple Jeremy Hubbard and Taunia Hottman took their parting shots at Kansas City as they prepared to leave town for jobs at stations in Denver.
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April 7, 2004
Mike Austin Out, Danny Boi In At KRBZ 96.5 FM
Kansas City -- allaccess -- ENTERCOM Alternative KRBZ (96.5 THE BUZZ)night boy DANNY BOI moves up to morning co-host on AFENTRA'S BIG FAT MORNING BUZZ, replacing MIKE AUSTIN, who exits. Parttimer TRAVIS takes nights for now.
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April 3, 2004
All-Comedy coming!
Kansas City -- allaccess -- ALL COMEDY RADIO inks a deal to purchase KCKN-AM from CARTER BROADCAST GROUP and will flip the station to its all-Comedy feed from Sports as of THURSDAY (APRIL FOOL'S DAY).
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April 2, 2004
Union Broadcasting is NOT being sold
Kansas City -- UNION BROADCASTING Pres. CHAD BOEGER tells the KANSAS CITY STAR that the company's local KANSAS CITY cluster -- Sports WHB-A, Talk KCTE-A, and Modern AC KZPL (97.3 THE PLANET) -- is not being sold to CUMULUS. BOEGER told the STAR that "basically, we're very happy being locally owned.
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April 2, 2004
50 Years of Cardinal Baseball on KMOX
Kansas City -- Congratulations to INFINITY Talk KMOX-A/ST. LOUIS, celebrating its 50th consecutive season carrying ST. LOUIS CARDINALS baseball. Sister KDKA-A/PITTSBURGH has carried PIRATES games for 49 seasons and TRIBUNE's WGN-A/CHICAGO has carried CUBS games for 46 straight seasons.
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April 2, 2004
KMBZ Hires New PD
Kansas City -- allaccess -- ENTERCOM Talk KMBZ-AM inks talk radio veteran NEIL LARRIMORE as PD, starting APRIL 5. LARRIMORE's background includes stops at WWDB/PHILADELPHIA and WHIO-A/DAYTON as well as the stop for which he'll always be remembered. "WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE," where he won $250,000.
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March 19, 2004
Infinity VP/Adult Top 40 Programming and OM/PD Jon Zellner Leaving
Kansas City -- allaccess -- INFINITY VP/Adult Top 40 Programming and Top 40 KMXV (MIX 93.3) & AC KSRC (STAR 102)/KANSAS OM/PD JON ZELLNER leaves the market after 8 successful years to become OM/PD at sister Modern AC WBMX (MIX 98-5) and WODS (OLDIES 103.3)/BOSTON, replacing former VP/PD GREG STRASSELL who was recently promoted to INFINITY Sr. VP/Programming.
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March 8, 2004
The Feb. sweeps: KMBC wins again
Kansas City -- kcstar -- KCTV, Channel 5, had a huge early lead in the local February news sweeps thanks to its riveting investigation of online sex predators. In the end, however, KMBC, Channel 9, remained on top.
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February 27, 2004
Bob & Tom to tone down show?
Areas Beyond -- indystar.com -- Prominent broadcast personality Tom Griswold says he has no intention of testing a "zero-tolerance" edict on indecency issued Wednesday by the country's largest radio conglomerate.
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February 13, 2004
Royals Games to be broadcast on KMCI 38 The Spot
Kansas City -- kmci -- Once again, KMCI 38 The Spot has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast a minimum of fourteen Kansas City Royals games during the upcoming 2004 Major League Baseball season. KMCI 38 The Spot will be the exclusive carrier of thirteen road games, including Opening Day as the Royals take on the Chicago White Sox on Monday, April 5 at 2:10 p.m.
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January 22, 2004
K.C.'s Fall Numbers Are Here
Kansas City -- R&R -- The book is out and KPRS (Hot 103 Jamz) leads in Kansas City once again, staying put with a 6.9 in the fall 2003 Arbitrons. KQRC rises to second, WDAF-FM takes third, and big jumps from KCFX and KUDL place the stations in fourth and fifth, respectively.
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January 10, 2004
Changes at Country Station KZSN
Areas Beyond -- allaccess -- CLEAR CHANNEL Country KZSN/WICHITA MD/midday flamethrower DAN HOLIDAY has announced that after 10 years with the station he will be leaving to take a post in a large market.
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January 9, 2004
WMLL 104.1 Wheel of Music Stops!!!
Saint Louis -- allaccess -- EMMIS stopped the "WHEEL OF MUSIC" at WMLL at noon Today and debuted "RED@104.1 MUSIC WITH CLASS" from the famous CORONADO BALLROOM. EMMIS says "RED@104.1 is positioned not as an Oldies station, or a Standards station, or a Nostalgia station.
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January 5, 2004
New PD hired for WDAF-FM
Kansas City -- allaccess -- "ENTERCOM Country WDAF-FM has hired a new PD. DENE HALLAM had exited. The new programmer will be CLEAR CHANNEL Country WDRM/HUNTSVILLE OM WES McSHAY. WES last day in ALABAMA will be this FRIDAY (1/9) and he'll be on the job in KC on MONDAY (1/12)."
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December 30, 2003
WDAF-FM programmer Dene Hallam exits
Kansas City -- allaccess -- Country programmer DENE HALLAM is exiting WDAF-FM. The development comes after a leadership change at ENTERCOM a couple of weeks ago when GM BOB ZUROWESTE exited the cluster.
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December 1, 2003
Comcast, Time Warner to combine cable partnerships
Areas Beyond -- Reuters -- Reuters Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and Time Warner Inc. (TWX) said on Monday they agreed to combine their cable partnerships in Kansas City, Missouri, and Texas, and to allow either company to trigger a dissolution of the combined entity after two years.
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December 1, 2003
Good News for PAX TV
Areas Beyond -- PAX TV reported its best new fall television season primetime performance, averaging over 800,000 homes
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November 12, 2003
Randy Miller out at KZPL 97.3
Kansas City -- UNION BROADCASTING Modern AC KZPL (THE PLANET 97.3)morning co-host RANDY MILLER exits. Co-host STEVEN ST. JOHN will carry on by himself until a replacement can be found. Reach out to RANDY at fireddj@aol.com.
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November 4, 2003
Jessica Simpson in town with KCHZ
Kansas City -- KCHZ (Z95.7) OM/PD DAVE JOHNSON had an interesting weekend with COLUMBIA songbird JESSICA SIMPSON. While making an in-store appearance for Z95.7, she didn't sing her hit "With You" as planned. She was trying to save her voice for the Z95.7 acoustic show for that night.
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October 10, 2003
On-Air Changes at KCHZ Z95.7
Kansas City -- allaccess -- SYNCOM RADIO Top 40/Mainstream KCHZ (Z95.7) inks EVAN "CABANA BOY" BERNSTEIN for PM drive. MD and current PM driver JACQUI LUCKY segues back to her old midday shift.
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October 10, 2003
Martha Stewart makes stop in KC
Kansas City -- KMBC-TV -- Stewart was in town to show off her furniture line at the Nebraska Furniture Mart, KMBC's Jeremy Hubbard reported. Hundreds of people lined up outside the door to catch a glimpse of her.
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September 1, 2003
Many Changes with local Fall Daytime TV
Kansas City -- kcstar -- Multitalented comedian Wayne Brady, six women sharing a house and the brains behind Ozzy Osbourne are among the new faces viewers of daytime TV will see starting this week.
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April 23, 2003
WIL 92.3FM Drops "LIA"
Saint Louis -- allaccess -- BONNEVILLE Country WIL has announced that it will no longer broadcast the JONES RADIO NETWORKS Country Syndicated show "LIA".
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